Cranfield Sky Blue
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After tonight? I thought we were as good as we’ve been all season.
After tonight? I thought we were as good as we’ve been all season.
Yes, fair point. There should be that much more space for the likes of Bayliss to exploit.Give it a day or two and we will be worried :woot:
But I do expect the size and condition of the Wembley pitch to give us an advantage.
Hopefully it will be a good game if football. It would have been hard to stomach losing against those Neanderthals from Notts, but if we lose to Exeter, we will probably have been beaten by a team who play in the right way. Although we were superb last night, I think most Cov fans will be aware that Exeter spent the vast majority of the season above us. Don't think anyone should get carried away.Worried? Nah, you played really well last night but I also watched your home leg when you were playing in front of more home fans, didn’t really impress and were fortunate to get away with a draw (in my opinion). Both sides are capable of playing some great stuff, but both can also look very average (remember what we were like at your place in the league??) so it will be an interesting game to see who copes with the pressure.
We like being underdogs and seem to play well when we’ve got more fans against us than with us, like we will at Wembley where I guess you’ll have close to double the number of fans that we’ll have. You seem to be the opposite and bottle it when playing in front of large home crowds.
So no, not worried, more like excited and looking forward to seeing what happens. I think we’ll win because I’m biased, but if we lose I’ll be delighted for you as I lived in and around Coventry for 22 years of my life (age 4 to 26).
Bring it.
From 4-26 years old? Go on admit it, you are Sky Blue!!!Worried? Nah, you played really well last night but I also watched your home leg when you were playing in front of more home fans, didn’t really impress and were fortunate to get away with a draw (in my opinion). Both sides are capable of playing some great stuff, but both can also look very average (remember what we were like at your place in the league??) so it will be an interesting game to see who copes with the pressure.
We like being underdogs and seem to play well when we’ve got more fans against us than with us, like we will at Wembley where I guess you’ll have close to double the number of fans that we’ll have. You seem to be the opposite and bottle it when playing in front of large home crowds.
So no, not worried, more like excited and looking forward to seeing what happens. I think we’ll win because I’m biased, but if we lose I’ll be delighted for you as I lived in and around Coventry for 22 years of my life (age 4 to 26).
Bring it.
We are crap at home with a large crowd. But Wembley isn't our home. And we played well there last season with a massive Cov support.Worried? Nah, you played really well last night but I also watched your home leg when you were playing in front of more home fans, didn’t really impress and were fortunate to get away with a draw (in my opinion). Both sides are capable of playing some great stuff, but both can also look very average (remember what we were like at your place in the league??) so it will be an interesting game to see who copes with the pressure.
We like being underdogs and seem to play well when we’ve got more fans against us than with us, like we will at Wembley where I guess you’ll have close to double the number of fans that we’ll have. You seem to be the opposite and bottle it when playing in front of large home crowds.
So no, not worried, more like excited and looking forward to seeing what happens. I think we’ll win because I’m biased, but if we lose I’ll be delighted for you as I lived in and around Coventry for 22 years of my life (age 4 to 26).
Bring it.
From 4-26 years old? Go on admit it, you are Sky Blue!!!
Hopefully Exeter are totally over confident.
That's very astute of youGive it a day or two and we will be worried :woot:
But I do expect the size and condition of the Wembley pitch to give us an advantage.
We welcome anyone here unless like the County idiot that said he was coming back after the game last night. His mummy must have sent him to bed early.Ha ha, no mate, I spent my school life being ridiculed for supporting Exeter while we were shit in division 4 and you were in division 1 and winning an FA Cup. I even lived near Keith Houchen and David Phillips and that didn’t turn me! I was born in Exeter, my Dad used to play for them, etc. He also played for the Villa but don’t tell anyone else on here that or they won’t like me any more.
Okay expert, tell us the obvious Bayliss weakness ?No chance they will be worried
They’ll focus on our inconsistency and weaknesses which were shown last night and if he really wants to ease any concerns Tisdale will show our Lincoln game and how our defence conspired to make a pub player look like as much a threat as Harry Kane.
They have a solid defence. He will know their players wouldn’t have conceded the third (and probably the second) goal as they will mark a lot tighter.
Bayliss has one obvious weakness which they’ll try and influence and if the can get their forwards against Grimmer in the box it’s party time.
Of course they’ll know it can go either way but they looked a decent enough team
Okay expert, tell us the obvious Bayliss weakness ?
Worried? Nah, you played really well last night but I also watched your home leg when you were playing in front of more home fans, didn’t really impress and were fortunate to get away with a draw (in my opinion). Both sides are capable of playing some great stuff, but both can also look very average (remember what we were like at your place in the league??) so it will be an interesting game to see who copes with the pressure.
We like being underdogs and seem to play well when we’ve got more fans against us than with us, like we will at Wembley where I guess you’ll have close to double the number of fans that we’ll have. You seem to be the opposite and bottle it when playing in front of large home crowds.
So no, not worried, more like excited and looking forward to seeing what happens. I think we’ll win because I’m biased, but if we lose I’ll be delighted for you as I lived in and around Coventry for 22 years of my life (age 4 to 26).
Bring it.
If I was Exeter's manager I would be delighted to have seen the Coventry performance last night.
I would be pointing out that they have rarely followed up a great performance all season and have struggled to find any consistency.
Exeter should be favorites and rightly so over the season. Their dismantling of Lincoln was very impressive.
If I was Robins I would challenging the team to reverse the trend and overcome the last challenge In front of them as a group.
Promotion means we will need to strengthen the squad and enable us to hold on to some of our better players. Some will not make the jump but we should be forever grateful if they can get us over the line.
Sorry I wasn't bigging Exeter up nor doing us down, merely stating an opinion based up the season we are still in. Lose at Wembley we are still in Division 4.This isn't the regular season anymore, the same trends don't apply and they'd be stupid to underestimate us based on those assumptions.
I agree that their dismantling of Lincoln was impressive, but, Notts County lost two games at home and we went and smashed them 4-1, I'd say that's a more impressive feat.
It's also worth noting that our Wembley support will be around double theirs so hopefully, it'll feel like home advantage for us, I don't think we'd have been a favoured opponent tbh.
I knew it, ban him from this site :joyful:Ha ha, no mate, I spent my school life being ridiculed for supporting Exeter while we were shit in division 4 and you were in division 1 and winning an FA Cup. I even lived near Keith Houchen and David Phillips and that didn’t turn me! I was born in Exeter, my Dad used to play for them, etc. He also played for the Villa but don’t tell anyone else on here that or they won’t like me any more.
Sorry I wasn't bigging Exeter up nor doing us down, merely stating an opinion based up the season we are still in. Lose at Wembley we are still in Division 4.
I am also sorry for what I about to say. Have our supporters ever scored s goal? Have our supporters ever saved a goal?
Our support should be 4 times theirs but it won't make any difference. Did it make a difference at FGR, Yeovil home or away? No because it's 11v11 and I hope our 11 turn up in the style of last night and not in the style of the aforementioned games.
You’re misrepresenting my point entirely.
My point is we could have an advantage going into this game because we could outnumber their support roughly 2 to 1. Which could give this game a home game ‘feel’ to it.
Home-field advantage is a phenomenon that is observable in every sport, be it football, basketball, rugby, cricket... even in the Olympics!
We've got the same end at Wembley as we had last year at the Checkatrade Final so that presumably means we'll get enough tickets to outnumber the Exeter fans. In that context, your idea of "Home game" may be right. But there have been plenty of occasions where Coventry have underperformed in those situations through pressure and nerves. Home field advantage can be a disadvantage as well (especially when following Cov, remember the 30,000 crowd vs Crewe during Robins first reign ?)
notts county spent all season above us as well:joyful::joyful::joyful::joyful:Hopefully it will be a good game if football. It would have been hard to stomach losing against those Neanderthals from Notts, but if we lose to Exeter, we will probably have been beaten by a team who play in the right way. Although we were superb last night, I think most Cov fans will be aware that Exeter spent the vast majority of the season above us. Don't think anyone should get carried away.
Echo your sentiments - will be crushed if we lose, but would rather see Exeter go up than Notts Co
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